"I was weening myself off 15 prescription drugs and I recall the seizure coming.

"I then knew I have just passed to the other side. I am raptured by the diamond-like ground, with what looks to be quartz crystal, white marble and even something that appears to be see-through glass."

Alma’s experience mirrors that of subjects who have experienced NDE, explained Dr Long in an exclusive interview with Daily Star Online.

He told us: “Subjects ofter arrive in an unearthly, mystical light, sometimes described as brilliant and as yet not hurting the eyes to see."

Alma continued: “On the majority of the ground, there were protruding diamonds that stood tall, smooth, and glistened so much that I did not want to take my eyes away from this ground.

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"Being the very curious person I had always been by nature, I looked up to see what else was there. To my left, I saw a huge crystal-blue sky, a beautiful waterfall with some vibrant green grass around its edges. I saw a huge, stone gate that led to what I believed was Heaven's gate.

"I then heard a voice talking to me. It was the sound of a boom of authority and sweet loving kindness at the same time. It said, 'You are here because you have come to me often.' I immediately knew all the prayers I had ever prayed had paid off.

"I was in a garden of Heaven that was at the foot of the entry gate.

"I saw my maternal grandmother to my right. She was with three other relatives that I recognise. To my left is my paternal grandmother and three relatives on my father's side who I recognize. My father seemed to want my attention and moved from the maternal side to the paternal side."

This also tallies with “strikingly similar” other accounts adds NDE researcher Dr Long – a physician of 32 years: “While in that realm they may encounter deceased loved ones – the overwhelming majority of the time the people will have died before the experience.

“And these are joyous reunions, even if relations were strained prior to the experience.”

Alma continues her incredible account: “Suddenly, the huge white Orb of the Glistening Eye of God dims and a huge Golden-yellow Orb comes out from its right.

“I immediately sense that it is the Light of Jesus.

"I am bathed in this Golden-yellow Light and healed, and healed, and healed even more. I cannot speak. It tells me, 'I Love you.' Its rays touched my body and I thought I would somehow be transported up those rays.

"They touched me and then the Golden-yellow Orb went back into the first huge white Orb, the Glistening Eye of God. A stone ledge then came out of the sky and a moving-art drawing of my life is presented to me. Then another, and another. I was having a life review.

"I immediately felt two opposite human feelings at the very same time. I was fully aware that they were opposites, something I had not experienced before or had forgotten if I had.

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"These feelings were that of complete grief that I had been allowed into the garden of Heaven and was in joy. It was a new joy that I had never felt in this lifetime.

"I knew I had just experienced something phenomenal and extraordinary. The following weeks were filled with my telling everyone I knew what had happened. I have not stopped talking about this NDE. It is my joy, it is my new life.

"It is my gift and the reason I want to live. Simply to share the story that we are so incredibly made and Loved by the All There Is, IS Love, God."

This also chimes with Dr Long’s ground-breaking research: “There is so much peace and love in these heavenly realms – it’s so free, that a significant majority don’t want to return – they just want to stay, which is just astounding.”

Ground-breaking evidence for the existence of an afterlife has been amassed by the physician, who has logged and analysed more than 4,000 first-hand accounts.